The Effect of Work Environment on Employees’ Engagement (Case of University of Gondar, Bahir Dar University and Debre Tabor University)

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of the work environment on employee’s engagement. Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. There is a growing recognition that works environment factor affect employee’s engagement. The work environment factors affect the quality of work-life, individual quality of work-life outcome and employee engagement. The research was carried out on three universities; the University of Gondar, Bahirdar University and Debre-Tabor University. The study mainly focuses on five main factors such as; coworker cohesion, supervisor support, autonomy, work pressure and physical comfort. The sample size of this study was 368, and it was selected through stratified random sampling. The researcher applied frequency from descriptive statistics and T-test, ANOVA, Correlation and multiple regression analysis to achieve the objective stated at the very beginning of this study. The findings of this study show that coworker cohesion, supervisor support and autonomy are significant and positively correlated with employee engagement. In contrast, physical comfort is insignificantly related to employee engagement, and work pressure has a negative and meaningful relationship with employee engagement.